AKRON, Ohio (WKRC) - An influential vaporwave producer from Ohio released a new album that recaptured a sound that went viral nearly a decade ago. Akron, Ohio-native Luke Laurila, known for his work ...

Writing about vaporwave in 2016 is almost impossible. Neophytes often seem baffled by the genre, assuming they've heard of it at all. Meanwhile, fans insist that vaporwave is dead. How do you write ...

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Ramona Andra Xavier wants to move beyond music. For the past seven years, Xavier has helped to define vaporwave, a sample-heavy genre of electronic music that repurposes digital relics from the late ...

"I just watched the Fyre Fest doc," George Clanton tells me backstage near the start of his own potentially madcap takeover of Brooklyn's enormous three-room club Elsewhere with the world's largest ...

Last month Chaz Allen played a Web-only vaporwave concert from his bedroom with six artists he's never met. Credit: Alison Green Vaporwave, to the extent it can be said to still exist, is sample based ...

Emerging in the early 2010s, vaporwave as a subgenre of electronic music, visual art style, internet meme, and aesthetic can be characterized by its retro-futuristic sounds and imagery. Inspired by ...

Most people know Michael Nesmith as the Monkee in the green wool hat who wrote some of their greatest songs (“Listen to the Band,” “Circle Sky”) and sat out most of their reunion tours. Others know ...